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---
layout: page
title: Feedreader
description: "Instructions on how to integrate RSS feeds into Home Assistant."
date: 2016-04-18 22:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
logo: rss.gif
ha_category: Other
ha_release: 0.18
---
Add an RSS/Atom feed reader that polls feeds every hour and sends new entries into the event bus.
To use RSS feeds in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
feedreader:
urls:
- https://www.home-assistant.io/atom.xml
- https://github.com/blog.atom
- https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast
```
{% configuration %}
urls:
description: List of URLS for your feeds.
required: true
type: list
scan_interval:
description: Defines the update interval of the feeds.
required: false
default: 1 hour
type: interval
max_entries:
description: The maximum number of entries to extract from each feed.
required: false
default: 20
type: integer
{% endconfiguration %}
The following configuration example shows how to configure update interval and maximum number of entries:
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry with optional parameters
feedreader:
urls:
- https://www.home-assistant.io/atom.xml
- https://github.com/blog.atom
- https://hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast
scan_interval:
minutes: 30
max_entries: 5
```
Feedreader events can be used out of the box to trigger automation actions, e.g.:
```yaml
automation:
- alias: Trigger action when new element(s) in RSS feed
trigger:
platform: event
event_type: feedreader
action:
service: script.turn_on
entity_id: script.my_action
```
```yaml
automation:
- alias: Send notification of RSS feed title when updated
trigger:
platform: event
event_type: feedreader
action:
service: persistent_notification.create
data_template:
title: "New HA Podcast available"
message: {% raw %}"New Podcast available - {{ as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M:%S %p %d%b%Y', true) }}"{% endraw %}
notification_id: {% raw %}"{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"{% endraw %}
```
Any field under the `<entry>` tag in the feed can be used for example `trigger.event.data.content` will get the body of the feed entry.
For more advanced use cases, a custom component registering to the `feedreader` event type could be used instead:
```python
EVENT_FEEDREADER = "feedreader"
hass.bus.listen(EVENT_FEEDREADER, event_listener)
```
To get started developing custom components, please refer to the [developers](/developers) documentation
For a drop in packaged complete example of Feedreader, you can use the [PodCast notifier](https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig/blob/master/config/packages/hasspodcast.yaml).